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S. E. SNEDEKER.

COOKING APPARATUS.

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COOKING APPARATUS.

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SAMUEL EDGAR SNEDEKER, F WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK.

COOKING APPARATUS.

srnoIfIcA'riort forming part of Letters Patent No. 651,149, dated {Tune5, 1900.

Application filed Jannary'17, 1900. Serial No. 1,721. (No model.)

To rtZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, S MUEL EDGAR SNED- EKER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at White Plains, in the county of WVestchester andState of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCooking Apparatus, of which the following is a full and completespecification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to cooking apparatus and the object thereof is toprovide means whereby frying-pans, broilers, and other cooking utensilsmay be movably supported in connection with a stove or other heater andoscillated to insure an even and thorough cooking of the contentsthereof.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of partshereinafter specified.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, inwhich like reference characters denote corresponding parts in theseveral views, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a cooking apparatusconstructed according to my invention, the support thereof being brokenaway at the lower portion. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof; Figs. 3,4, 5, 6, 7, S, 9, and 10, views of details of the operating elements ofmy improved apparatus, and Figs. 11, 12, 13, 14, and views of cookingutensils which are particularly adapted for the purpose in view.

In the practice of my invention I provide a standard 20, which isconnected with or supported adjacent a stove or other heater and isprovided with a main upright 21, a supplemental upright portion 22, anda longitudinally-extended member 23, connected with the main upright 21.Journaled in the uprights 21 and 22 is a main shaft 24, providedadjacentone end withaloosely-mounted drum 25, upon which is wound a cordor other flexible device 26, one end of which is fixed to said drum andthe other end of which is provided with a weight 27, which may bedetached to allow the substitution of weights of varying mass. The outerend of the shaft24 is provided with a fixed ratchet 28, and pivoted tothe drum 25 is a pawl 29, which operates in connection with saidratchet.

A hand-wheel is loosely mounted upon the extreme outer end of the shaft24 and keyed to the drum 25 at 31, whereby said drum may be turned uponthe shaft to wind up the cord 26 thereon. A friction-governor 32 (shownin Figs. 7' and 8) is mounted upon the shaft 24 and comprises a fixedportion 32, which is looked to the upright 22 by a collar 32", and arotating portion 32, which is fixed to the shaft 24 and provided withslidable peripheral shoes 32, which operate in connection with the fixedmember 32 in the customary manner to brake the shaft 24.

Mounted upon the shaft 24 are a pair of gears 33 and 34, one of which,33, is loose, and said gears are shown, respectively, in Figs. 3 and 4and 5 and 6. The gear 33 is provided with a concentric lateral member 33of diminished diameter, and the gear 34 is provided with a peripheralinteriorly-toothed flange 34".

The main upright 21 is provided with a lateral depending bracket 35,which carries at its lower end a short shaft 36, provided at either endwith a pinion, respectively, 37 and 38, and the shaft 36 is looselymounted in the bracket 35. The pinion 38 operates in connection with thetoothed member 33 of the gear 33, and the pinion 37 meshes with theinteriorly-toothed flange 34 of the gear 34. The teeth of the gears 33and 34 are arranged relatively alternately, for a purpose hereinafterexplained, and it is evident that the gears 33 and 34 will be rotated inopposite directions by means of the relative arrangement of the teeth ofthe flange 34 of the gear 34 and the lateral member 33 of the gear 33,one of said sets of teeth being exterior and the other interior of therespective gear element.

The longitudinal member 23 of the main upright 21 is provided at eachend with a pair of laterally-directed rollers 39, and mounted betweensaid rollers is a reciprocating bar 40, which is provided with a pair oflaterally-arranged racks 41, which operate, respectively, in connectionwith the gears 33 and 34 to cause reciprocation of the bar 40, and thereciprocation thereof is caused by the relativelyalternate arrangementof the teeth of said gears. A pair of shafts 42 are loosely mounted inthe longitudinal extension 23 of the upright 21, as clearly shown inFigs. 1 and 2,

and to each of said shafts is attached the cooking utensil, one of whichis shown in Fig. 1 and consists of a frier 43. The inner ends of theshafts 42 are provided with upwardlydirected arms 44, and the bar 40 isprovided at predetermined points with two depending fingers 45, whichoperate, in connection with said arms 44, upon reciprocation of the bar40 to oscillate the shafts 42 and the cooking utensil 43, connectedtherewith. The frier 43 is shown in detail in Figs. 11, 12, and 13, Fig.11 being an end view thereof, Fig. 12 a plan view thereof, Fig. 13 aside view thereof, Fig. 14 a plan view of a broiler, and Fig. 15 an edgeview of a portion thereof, showing the construction in Fig. 14.

In Fig. 14 is shown a foraminated construction 45, which comprises thebroiler-body proper and is provided at its outer edge with chains orlink devices 46, which operate in connection with hooks 47, formed uponthe other portion or half of the broiler-body, and whereby articles ofvarying bulk may be securely gripped between the sides of thebroiler-body.

The operation of my improved cooking apparatus will be evident from theforegoing description when taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings.

The'hand-wheel 30 maybe operated as desired to wind up the cord 26 uponthe drum 25, and the weight 27, causing said cord to unwind, rotates theshaft 24 and the gears 33 and 34, which gears are connected by means ofthe pinions 37 and 3S, and as one of said gears is loosely mounted uponthe shaft 24 said gears are reversely and alternately operated, wherebythe bar 40 is caused to reciprocate upon its roller-supports 39 and inits reciprocation rocks the shafts 42, by means of the arms 44 thereof,oscillating the trier 43 or other cooking utensil above the fire in thestove or other heater and causing an even cooking and basting of thecontents of the frier or other cooking-receptacle.

I do not limit myself to the specific construction and arrangement ofparts herein specified, but reserve the right to vary the same withinthe scope of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. A cooking apparatus of the class described adaptedto be connected with or arranged adjacent a stove or other heater,comprising a frame, a main shaft journaled therein, means for operatingthe same, a pivotal cooking-utensil support operatively mounted in saidframe, a reciprocating element open atively mounted in said frame andarranged to operate in connection with said pivotal cooking-utensilsupport, said reciprocating element being provided with a pair of racks,a fixed gear and a loose gear mounted upon said main shaft and arrangedto operate respectively in connection with said racks, said fixed andloose gears being operatively con.-

nected, and the relative arrangement and construction thereof being suchthat said racks are alternately and reversely operated thereby,substantially as shown and de scribed.

2. A cooking apparatus of the class described, comprising a frame, amain shaft journaled therein, means for operating said main shaft, apair of gears mounted upon said main shaft, one of which is fixed andthe other of which is loose, said gears being so operatively connectedthat when said fixed gear is turned by said main shaft, said loose gearwill be turned in the opposite direction, a reciprocating elementmounted in said main frame and provided with racks which operate inconnection with said gears, and a cookingutensil support pivotallymounted in said frame and arranged to operate in connection with saidreciprocating element, substantially as shown and described.

3. A cooking apparatus of the class described, comprising a frame, amain shaft journaled therein, means for operating said main shaft, apair of gears mounted upon said main shaft, one of which is fixed andthe other of which is loose, said gears being so operatively connectedthat when said fixed gear is turned by said main shaft, said loose gearwill be turned in the opposite direction, a reciprocating elementmounted in said main frame provided with racks which operate inconnection with said gears, a cooking-utensil support pivotally mountedin said frame and arranged to operate in connection with saidreciprocating element, and said main shaft being provided with agovernor, substantially as shown and described.

4. A cooking apparatus of the class described, comprising a main frame,a main shaft journaled therein, means for turning said main shaft in aconstant direction, a pair of gears mounted upon said main shaft, one ofwhich is fixed thereto, and the other of which is loosely mountedthereon, one of said gears being provided with internal supplementalteeth, the other of said gears being provided with external supplementalteeth, a bracket connected with said frame and provided with aloosely-mounted shaft carrying pinions which operate respectively inconnection with said internal and said external supplemental teeth, areciprocating element mounted in said frame and provided with racks inconnection with which said gears respectively operate, the teeth of saidgears being relatively alternately arranged, and a rockingcooking-receptacle support which is mounted in said frame and inconnection with which said reciprocating element operates, substantiallyas shown and described.

5. A cooking apparatus of the class described, comprising a frame, amain shaft journaled therein and provided with alooselymounted drum anda fixed ratchet, said drum being provided with a pivoted pawl whichoperates in connection with said ratchet, a

flexible device one end of which is connected with said drum and whichis arranged to be wound upon said drum and is provided at its free endwith a Weight, a pivotal cookingutensil support operatively mounted insaid frame, a reciprocating element operatively mounted in said frameand arranged to operate in connection with said pivotal cookingutensilsupport, said reciprocatingelement being provided with a pair of racks,a fixed gear and aloose gear mounted upon said main shaft and arrangedto operate respectively in connection with said racks, said fixed andloose gears being-operatively connected, and

the relative arrangement and construction thereof being such that saidracks are alternately re'versely operated thereby, substantially asshown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as myinvention I have signed myname, in presence of the subscribing witnesses, this 11th day ofJanuary, 1900. p V U I SAML. EDGAR SNEDEKER.

Witnesses:

J AS. W. BIRCH, Mrs. J. W. BIRCH.

